Dempsey making the most of unlucky break

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WHEN Geordan Murphy broke his leg in September, a sickening injury that cost the Ireland full back his place at the World Cup, Girvan Dempsey, more than most, could sympathise with his predicament. Dempsey had suffered similar disappointment in 1999 when, four weeks before the tournament, he broke his collarbone in a match between Leinster and Connacht. Having been robbed of his chance then, he could appreciate how devastated Murphy would be feeling and was among the first to offer his condolences as Murphy lay prostrate in an Edinburgh hospital bed.